Jews in Dresden, 1945

Introduction by Peter Landé

This database contains information on 265 persons who were
residing in Dresden or in Dresden prisons as of January 22, 1945.

Background

This database consists of two lists.
The first is an undated list of Jews held in a Dresden prison.
The second list identifies Jews still residing in Dresden as of
22-Jan-1945.

While not stated, it is clear that all these persons had been freed
from deportation because of mixed (Jewish-non-Jewish) marriages or
parentage. The list was developed in order to identify Jews
who could be used in local forced labor and it includes notations such
as "ef" or "nef", Einsatzfaehig or nicht Einsatzfaehig
(capable or not capable of work).
These notations and local addresses were not entered into the database,
but can be provided in response to individual inquiries to the
USHMM Archives.

Death in the Holocaust or survival of the individuals in both
collections is not given and other sources would have to be used to
determine this. January 22, 1945 was just prior to the massive
bombing of Dresden, and it is possible that some of the listed persons
died in that bombing.

Database

This database includes 265 records from the following lists:

List #

Description

# of Records

List I

Jewish Prisoners in the Dresden Prison

52

List II

Jews still residing in Dresden as of 22-Jan-1945

213

The fields for this database are as follows:

Name (Family name + Given name)

Maiden name (if present)

Date of birth

Place of birth (usually city)

Age

City of Residence

List # ("List I" or "List II")

Prison cell #

Comments

Acknowledgments

In addition, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website
and database expertise to make this database accessible.
Special thanks to Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their
continued contributions to Jewish genealogy. Particular
thanks to Nolan Altman, coordinator of Holocaust files.